Word: districts
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Metropolitan District yesterday ordered and other Boston community restrict their use of water the current drought...
...DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Gives Washingtonians local self-government, including the right to elect a mayor, city council and board of education, replacing the present system in which presidential appointees run the city...
...assignments, Fortas labored with intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to broaden the definition of legal insanity in the light of psychiatric knowledge, a decision that is still reverberating through the courts. In 1962, the Supreme Court picked him to appeal the celebrated Gideon case; he argued brilliantly and induced the court to rule that any citizen...
...District Judge Herbert Christenberry, 67, was born and bred in New Orleans, is an old Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
...picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India (TIME, Jan. 15). Chapter III: New York's gang-busting District Attorney Frank Hogan, 63, disclosed that the DeLong ruby had wound up in the hands of some Miami usurers. They were asking $21,000 ransom, and at first Frank Hogan agreed. But 48 hours later, the D.A. snorted, "My office will not be used as an instrument in a ransom...